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Who instructed the Governor of New South Wales Thomas Brisbane to send the worst convicts to Norfolk Island?
The convicts detained have long been assumed to be a hardcore of recidivists, or 'doubly-convicted capital respites' – that is, men transported to Australia who committed fresh colonial crimes for which they were sentenced to death, and were spared the gallows on condition of life at Norfolk Island.
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How does Alaska's per capita personal income rank against other states?
According to a 2013 study by Phoenix Marketing International, Alaska had the fifth-largest number of millionaires per capita in the United States, with a ratio of 6.75 percent.
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Besides its uses as language of religions, for what other application can Sanskrit be used?
Today it is listed as one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and is an official language of the state of Uttarakhand.
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Which part of the county is rural and sparsely populated?
Lancashire is home to a significant Asian population, numbering over 70,000 and 6% of the county's population, and concentrated largely in the former cotton mill towns in the south east.
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What era was there a Gallo-Roman vicus on the same site?
No archaeological evidence that indicates a settlement on the site of today′s city centre prior to the 12th century has been found so far.
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What theory was Aristotle's explanation based on?
Aristotle was considered to give a more important position to sense perception than Plato, and commentators in the Middle Ages summarized one of his positions as "nihil in intellectu nisi prius fuerit in sensu" (Latin for "nothing in the intellect without first being in the senses").
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Who had tried to enact a law that places a limit on the amount of property any single individual could possess?
He attempted to enact a law which would have limited the amount of land that any individual could own.
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To whom was Marvel sold in 1968?
In 1968, while selling 50 million comic books a year, company founder Goodman revised the constraining distribution arrangement with Independent News he had reached under duress during the Atlas years, allowing him now to release as many titles as demand warranted.
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Who runs Tucson's main power plant?
The base will soon have the largest solar-generating capacity in the United States Department of Defense after awarding a contract on September 10, 2010, to SunEdison to construct a 14.5 MW PV field on the northwestern side of the base.
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Where are large quantities of H2 needed?
H_2 is used as a hydrogenating agent, particularly in increasing the level of saturation of unsaturated fats and oils (found in items such as margarine), and in the production of methanol.
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When was Harry Caray's final performance of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game"?
An album entitled Take Me Out to a Cubs Game was released in 2008.
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How often did Jehovah Witnesses congregations meet prior to 2009?
Prior to 2009, congregations met three times each week; these meetings were condensed, with the intention that members dedicate an evening for "family worship".
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What % of households were spending less than £20 per week in 2004
Household survey results suggest the percentage of households spending less than £20 per week on a per capita basis fell from 27% to 8% between 2000 and 2004, implying a decline in income poverty.
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Who is the head for Greece's foreign policy?
Greece's foreign policy is conducted through the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and its head, the Minister for Foreign Affairs.
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When did republicanism gain strength during Queen Victoria's reign?
As a result of her seclusion, republicanism temporarily gained strength, but in the latter half of her reign her popularity recovered.
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What did this agreement establish?
The Founder Members Agreement, signed on 17 July 1991 by the game's top-flight clubs, established the basic principles for setting up the FA Premier League.
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Where did Avicenna think Venus was in relation to the sun?
He used his transit observation to help establish that Venus was, at least sometimes, below the Sun in Ptolemaic cosmology, i.e. the sphere of Venus comes before the sphere of the Sun when moving out from the Earth in the prevailing geocentric model.
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Slavs that remained in the Carpathian basin were assimilated into who?
Conversely, some Slavs were assimilated into other populations.
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What is the population of the city?
The U.S. Census Bureau estimated the city's population to be 439,896 as of July 1, 2014.
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Where did Pope Francis commemorate his death on 3 June?
He is commemorated on the date of his death, 3 June, by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and on the following day, 4 June, by the Anglican Church of Canada and the Episcopal Church (United States).
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How was the public sphere defined?
Elements of the public sphere included: it was egalitarian, it discussed the domain of "common concern," and argument was founded on reason.
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How many prisoners are still held in Burma on political crimes?
In July 2013, the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners indicated that there were approximately 100 political prisoners being held in Burmese prisons.
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How many men defended the attack from the Dutch in 1673?
With only twenty-three men, the valiant Martin beat off an attack by three Dutch warships.
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What type of scientist was John Gould?
In March 1837, ornithologist John Gould announced that Darwin's rhea was a separate species from the previously described rhea (though their territories overlapped), that mockingbirds collected on the Galápagos Islands represented three separate species each unique to a particular island, and that several distinct birds from those islands were all classified as finches.
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What are groups other than blacks considered to be?
[W]hen ancestry in one of these racial minority groups does not exceed one-fourth, a person is not defined solely as a member of that group.
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what did the spanish think the cities of Quivira and Cíbola were rich in?
The Spanish thought the Great Plains were the location of the mythological Quivira and Cíbola, a place said to be rich in gold.
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How did the translation of Rubaiyat achieve an Oriental flavor?
An exception was the outstanding translation in this period, Edward FitzGerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1859), which achieved its Oriental flavor largely by using Persian names and discreet Biblical echoes and actually drew little of its material from the Persian original.
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Has Bermuda's constitution ever been amended?
The Constitution of Bermuda came into force on 1 June 1967; it was amended in 1989 and 2003.
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When did the Borders Books open up in Ann Arbor?
The Borders chain was based in the city, as was its flagship store until it closed in September 2011.
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Software stored in hardware that cannot be changed easily is called what?
Software refers to parts of the computer which do not have a material form, such as programs, data, protocols, etc.
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What kind of schools did samurai start?
Some of these exchange students started private schools for higher educations, while many samurai took pens instead of guns and became reporters and writers, setting up newspaper companies, and others entered governmental service.
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What did the Boston Globe have to say about Yale?
Yale alumni were represented on the Democratic or Republican ticket in every U.S. Presidential election between 1972 and 2004.
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How many orders of mendicant friars came out of the Middle Ages?
Like his contemporary, Francis, Dominic saw the need for a new type of organization, and the quick growth of the Dominicans and Franciscans during their first century of existence confirms that the orders of mendicant friars met a need.
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Madrasas in which specific location are said to have guided the formation of medieval universities?
Lowe and Yasuhara have recently drawn on the well-documented influences of scholarship from the Islamic world on the universities of Western Europe to call for a reconsideration of the development of higher education, turning away from a concern with local institutional structures to a broader consideration within a global context.
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What sort of language system is phonology?
The word phonology (as in the phonology of English) can also refer to the phonological system (sound system) of a given language.
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Daylight Saving Time is sometimes called summer time, but the clocks are actually moved forward in which season?
A digital display of local time does not read 02:00 exactly at the shift to summer time, but instead jumps from 01:59:59.9 forward to 03:00:00.0.
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How did the Queen view the Indian Rebellion?
The Queen had a relatively balanced view of the conflict, and condemned atrocities on both sides.
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Who suggested the name Oklahoma?
Choctaw Chief Allen Wright suggested the name in 1866 during treaty negotiations with the federal government regarding the use of Indian Territory, in which he envisioned an all-Indian state controlled by the United States Superintendent of Indian Affairs.
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What lays at the bottom of the Inn Valley
The Inn valley is an example of a valley carved by glaciers during the ice ages with a typical terraced structure caused by erosion.
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Visitors to what region's beaches often stop at Plymouth?
Plymouth is often used as a base by visitors to Dartmoor, the Tamar Valley and the beaches of south-east Cornwall.
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When did Giotto die?
During this period the practice of manuscript illumination gradually passed from monasteries to lay workshops, so that according to Janetta Benton "by 1300 most monks bought their books in shops", and the book of hours developed as a form of devotional book for lay-people.
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The hollow worked stones lamps found in Lascaux caves date back how far?
With the discovery of fire, the earliest form of artificial lighting used to illuminate an area were campfires or torches.
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Where did Virgil's name become a generic term for magic-worker?
Virgil's legacy in medieval Wales was such that the Welsh version of his name, Fferyllt or Pheryllt, became a generic term for magic-worker, and survives in the modern Welsh word for pharmacist, fferyllydd.
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In addition to technology, Fachhochschulen offer courses in social science, medicine, design, and what other discipline?
They grant bachelor's degrees and master's degrees, and focus more on teaching than research and more on specific professions than on science.
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What group of people were suddenly free to go shopping without fears of being judged or reprimanded?
This urbanized social group, sharing a culture of consumption and changing fashion, was the catalyst for the retail revolution.
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Why weren't the Ugyhurs deported back to China?
They were cleared as safe for release from Guantánamo in 2005 or 2006, but US domestic law prohibited deporting them back to China, their country of citizenship, because the US government determined that China was likely to violate their human rights.
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In 1948, what general assembly resolution established genocide as a prosecutable act?
In 1948, the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) which defined the crime of genocide for the first time.
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What town did Victoria visit in the center of England on her trip with the Dutchess of kent and Conroy?
In 1830, the Duchess of Kent and Conroy took Victoria across the centre of England to visit the Malvern Hills, stopping at towns and great country houses along the way.
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What type of donations did the Jerkins Orphanage accept?
Orphanages around the country began to develop brass bands in the wake of the Jenkins Orphanage Band's success.
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How many kilometers is it away from London?
The city is spread widely on both banks of the river.
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How many states are on the Frontier Strip?
It is bounded on the east by Arkansas and Missouri, on the north by Kansas, on the northwest by Colorado, on the far west by New Mexico, and on the south and near-west by Texas.
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On 6 June 2005, The Times redesigned what page of its newspaper?
On 6 June 2005, The Times redesigned its Letters page, dropping the practice of printing correspondents' full postal addresses.
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What position was Ben Franklin appointed in 1776?
In June 1776, Benjamin Franklin was appointed a member of the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence.
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What percentage of the population in 2011 were millenials?
Millennials (ages 18 through 34) constitute 27.1% of San Diego's population, the second-highest percentage in a major U.S. city.
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What factor has caused an increased demand for fish?
The rising population has resulted in an increased demand on fish stocks, which are under stress; although the creation of the Funafuti Conservation Area has provided a fishing exclusion area to help sustain the fish population across the Funafuti lagoon.
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What did the king lose on his way to the west?
The king returned west but is said to have lost a significant part of his baggage train along the way.
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What type of meat is never present in halal dishes?
Despite the variety, there remains one thing that unites the various regional cuisines: all food is served halal.
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Ctenophora and the Cnidaria include what sea creatures?
As such, these animals are sometimes called diploblastic.
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What scriptures describe hunting as and acceptable occupation?
Even figures considered godly are described to have engaged in hunting.
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What is the success rate for male Aeta hunters?
Aeta women hunt in groups and with dogs, and have a 31% success rate as opposed to 17% for men.
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When was HDTV introduced in the US?
The American Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) HDTV system had its public launch on October 29, 1998, during the live coverage of astronaut John Glenn's return mission to space on board the Space Shuttle Discovery.
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In what year was the Malleus Maleficarum published?
Besides mysticism, belief in witches and witchcraft became widespread, and by the late 15th century the Church had begun to lend credence to populist fears of witchcraft with its condemnation of witches in 1484 and the publication in 1486 of the Malleus Maleficarum, the most popular handbook for witch-hunters.
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Until what century did the Kabul Shahi dynasties rule the Kabul Valley?
The kingdom was known as the Kabul Shahan or Ratbelshahan from 565-670, when the capitals were located in Kapisa and Kabul, and later Udabhandapura, also known as Hund for its new capital.
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When was the USB Battery Charging Specification Revision 1.1 released?
The USB Battery Charging Specification Revision 1.1 (released in 2007) defines a new type of USB port, called the charging port.
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What do Jehovah Witnesses consider the science and history within the Bible to be?
They consider the Bible to be the final authority for all their beliefs, although sociologist Andrew Holden's ethnographic study of the religion concluded that pronouncements of the Governing Body, through Watch Tower Society publications, carry almost as much weight as the Bible.
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What company purchased Horne's in 1972?
In December 1986, Horne's was acquired by a local investor group following ADG's acquisition by May Department Stores.
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What are some of the members of the Armed Forces Council?
The Armed Forces' 115,349 personnel are divided into a hierarchy of numerous ranks of officers and non-commissioned members.
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What journalist from the New York Times stated his believe in Nassim Nicholas Taleb?
According to David Brooks from the New York Times, "Taleb not only has an explanation for what’s happening, he saw it coming."
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Where did Adolf Hitler establish a home in the 1930s?
Austrian-born Adolf Hitler had a lifelong romantic fascination with the Alps and by the 1930s established a home in the Obersalzberg region outside of Berchtesgaden.
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Which airport is the second busiest in all of Australia?
Melbourne also has a significant general aviation airport, Moorabbin Airport in the city's south east that also handles a small number of passenger flights.
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What affluent family did Chopin gain a patronage from?
Later that year he was introduced to the wealthy Rothschild banking family, whose patronage also opened doors for him to other private salons (social gatherings of the aristocracy and artistic and literary elite).
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What should secondary training provide a student in the secondary stage of school?
He wrote that this was a transitional stage and that there needs to be flexibility regarding the age in which pupils graduate, as the student's emotional development and chosen subjects need to be taken into account.
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What did the Democrat party do in the 1970
In this period, African Americans were still disenfranchised by the state's constitution and discriminatory practices; in the 19th century they had made up most of the Republican Party.
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What did the new post-punk artists believe?
The term "post-punk" was first used by journalists in the late 1970s to describe groups moving beyond punk's sonic template into disparate areas.
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What Apple mouse 1st used multi-touch gesture recognition?
In October 2009, Apple introduced the Magic Mouse, which uses multi-touch gesture recognition (similar to that of the iPhone) instead of a physical scroll wheel or ball.
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What television station made a documentary on Chopin?
Chopin's life was covered in a BBC TV documentary Chopin –
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What does the letter of the abbreviated notation for the electrical characteristics of smaller capacitors represent?
Most capacitors have numbers printed on their bodies to indicate their electrical characteristics.
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How do Hawking and Mlodinow believe the question of God can be answered?
Stephen Hawking and co-author Leonard Mlodinow state in their book, The Grand Design, that it is reasonable to ask who or what created the universe, but if the answer is God, then the question has merely been deflected to that of who created God.
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In what ways can the gender of God be viewed?
The gender of God may be viewed as either a literal or an allegorical aspect of a deity who, in classical western philosophy, transcends bodily form.
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According to actor Tom Hiddleston, that is special about Eton?
It has the facilities and the excellence of teaching and it will find what you’re good at and nurture it", while the actor Tom Hiddleston says there are widespread misconceptions about Eton, and that "People think it's just full of braying toffs...
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Who uses the Latin alphabet?
The Orthodox use the Cyrillic alphabet and the Roman Catholics use Latin alphabet, the Bosniaks who are Muslims also use the Latin.
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Who did the Ming emperors send invitations to?
According to Tibetologist John Powers, Tibetan sources counter this narrative of titles granted by the Chinese to Tibetans with various titles which the Tibetans gave to the Chinese emperors and their officials.
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How many people visited the Hanover Zoo in 2010?
In 2010 the Hanover Zoo had over 1.6 million visitors.
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What is the common density of printing paper?
Printing paper is about 800 kg/m3 (50 lb/cu ft).
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In what European areas is Protestantism still the most practiced religion?
These include the Nordic countries and the United Kingdom.
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How many Dubai-based airlines are owned by Somalis?
Somali-owned businesses line the streets of Deira, the Dubai city centre, with only Iranians exporting more products from the city at large.
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On what date did Eisenhower leave active duty in the military?
The trustees of Columbia University refused to accept Eisenhower's resignation in December 1950, when he took an extended leave from the university to become the Supreme Commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and he was given operational command of NATO forces in Europe.
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Which is Australia's busiest port?
Ship transport is an important component of Melbourne's transport system.
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The Langone Medical Center is part of what college?
The Introductory Course is a course that gives students an overview of the basics of immunology.
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Do adolescents perform significantly better on IQ tests than other age groups?
Wisdom is not the same as intelligence: adolescents do not improve substantially on IQ tests since their scores are relative to others in their same age group, and relative standing usually does not change—everyone matures at approximately the same rate in this way.
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What are the ideal chemical properties for the gas in a light bulb?
The presence of gas molecules knocks the liberated tungsten atoms back to the filament, reducing its evaporation and allowing it to be operated at higher temperature without reducing its life (or, for operating at the same temperature, prolongs the filament life).
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How many parades take place during Carnival?
The latter two parades are open to anyone who wishes to participate.
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Where is Greyhound terminal located?
Most of Greyhound's services in Philadelphia operate to/from the Philadelphia Greyhound Terminal, located at 1001 Filbert Street in Center City Philadelphia.
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Who did the Guinness Book of World Records say was the oldest dog in 2011?
The dog widely reported to be the longest-lived is "Bluey", who died in 1939 and was claimed to be 29.5 years old at the time of his death.
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What sector puts up most of Southampton's economic contribution?
According to 2004 figures, Southampton contributes around £4.2 bn to the regional economy annually.
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Who used Pan-Slavism as a political tool?
Pan-Slavism, a movement which came into prominence in the mid-19th century, emphasized the common heritage and unity of all the Slavic peoples.
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Of which Washington county is Seattle the center?
With an estimated 662,400 residents as of 2015[update], Seattle is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region of North America.
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What political party is mostly supported by orthodox jews?
While the overwhelming majority of non-Orthodox American Jews are on average strongly liberal and supporters of the Democratic Party, the Modern Orthodox subgroup of Orthodox Judaism tends to be far more conservative, with roughly half describing themselves as political conservatives, and are mostly Republican Party supporters.
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How many performers are in the Tucson Folk Festival?
In addition to nationally known headline acts each evening, the Festival highlights over 100 local and regional musicians on five stages is one of the largest free festivals in the country.
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What does a nonstandard dialect usually not have compared to a standard dialect?
The Dialect Test was designed by Joseph Wright to compare different English dialects with each other.
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